Advice on Pay from the Compensation Cafe

There are a million ways employers can make mistakes when it comes to compensation. Breakdowns in compensation philosophy communication, using the wrong kinds of incentives, misapplying benchmarks, setting inappropriate pay mixes, and expecting compensation to solve all of your employee engagement issues are just some of the ways you may be setting your compensation system up for failure. But help is on the way – from the Compensation Café! Five compensation experts (Ann Bares, Chuck Czismar, Jim Brennan, Margaret O'Hanlon and Dan Walter)will be fielding questions and giving advice on total rewards, compensation philosophy and strategy, incentives and variable pay, base salary structures, employee engagement, special issues in international and ex-pat compensation, and how everything in compensation is really about communication.